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• Jim Seals, Half of a Popular 1970s Soft-Rock Duo, Dies at 79

  07-06-2022 23:23 via nytimes.com
  
  Teamed with Dash Crofts, he hit it big with “Summer Breeze” in 1972. The two went on to have chart success with “Diamond Girl” and other songs.
  
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• Crosscut launches Black Arts Legacies showcasing contemporary and historic Black creators in the Northwest - Seattle.gov

  07-06-2022 23:15
  Crosscut launches Black Arts Legacies showcasing contemporary and historic Black creators in the Northwest  Seattle.gov
  
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• Following a Period of Controversy, Philadelphia Museum of Art Names Sasha Suda as Next Director

  07-06-2022 22:21 via artnews.com
  
  The Philadelphia Museum of Art has named Sasha Suda, CEO and director of the National Gallery of Canada, as its next director. She will begin in her role in September, taking over from Timothy Rub, who led the museum for 13 years and stepped down in January.
  The PMA has been embroiled in controversy since 2020, when a New York Times report revealed that the museum had failed to properly investigate allegations of misconduct against a former employee, Joshua Helmer. Helmer had served as the PMA&r
  
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• With ‘Cosmopolis,’ a Limo Ride That Redefined Robert Pattinson’s Career

  07-06-2022 22:05 via nytimes.com
  
  Ten years later, a look back at the movie that helped the actor move from serious heartthrob to serious thespian.
  
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• How the arts can help children think about gun violence - NPR

  07-06-2022 22:00
  How the arts can help children think about gun violence  NPR
  
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• Ruth Negga Thinks Lady Macbeth Is Misunderstood

  07-06-2022 21:50 via nytimes.com
  
  The actress, nominated for a Tony Award for her magnetic performance in “Macbeth,” is drawn to female characters who challenge the status quo.
  
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• Report: Nearly Half of U.S. Museum Shows Dedicated to 4% of Modern and Contemporary Artists

  07-06-2022 21:43 via artnews.com
  
  Nearly half of all art exhibitions showcased by U.S. museums between 2017 and 2021 were dedicated to less than five percent of a quarter of a million artists, ranging from those born at the start of the 20th century to those working today, according to a new survey.
  The report, authored by art economist Clare McAndrew and published last week by UBS, laid out the U.S. cities which serve as the country’s main art hubs and market drivers. New York is home to the largest share of active art in
  
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• Morris Hirshfield, A Once Obscure Self-Taught Artist, Is Having A Major Resurgence

  07-06-2022 21:00 via artnews.com
  
  In 1937, newly retired tailor and shoe designer Morris Hirshfield began to think about painting the animals, people, and landscapes in his head. He would go on to produce a mere 78 works—a function of both his short career and his labor-intensive process.
  An upcoming retrospective at New York’s American Folk Art Museum, Morris Hirshfield Rediscovered, will show more than 40 of them. The exhibition coincides with the publication of a scholarly monograph, Master of the Two Left Feet by
  
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• 7 Labels to Know at This Year’s Indigenous Fashion Arts Festival - Vogue

  07-06-2022 20:38
  
  7 Labels to Know at This Year’s Indigenous Fashion Arts Festival  Vogue
  
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• Philadelphia Museum of Art Names a New Director

  07-06-2022 20:30 via nytimes.com
  
  Sasha Suda, director and chief executive of the National Gallery of Canada, will replace Timothy Rub, who stepped down in January after 13 years and an apology to employees.
  
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• In ‘Horse,’ Geraldine Brooks Sets a Consideration of Race at the Track

  07-06-2022 20:24 via nytimes.com
  
  Brooks’s latest novel focuses on two young Black men, and shuttles between the present day and the 19th-century world of horse racing.
  
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• ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ and ‘Tina’ to End Their Broadway Runs

  07-06-2022 20:14 via nytimes.com
  
  The musicals, both of which lost steam after the pandemic shutdown, will close in late summer.
  
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• Post Malone and Pop’s Single Sound

  07-06-2022 19:51 via nytimes.com
  
  “Twelve Carat Toothache,” the new album from the post-genre star, continues to collapse several styles into one, and hones a template adopted by a new generation, including Tate McRae.
  
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• Jacques Villeglé, French Artist Who Found Beauty in Torn Advertisements, Dies at 96

  07-06-2022 19:41 via artnews.com
  
  Jacques Villeglé, an artist whose work made use of torn posters spotted on the street that have influenced generations of French artists, has died at 96.
  The Paris-based Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, which represents Villeglé, announced the artist’s death in a statement posted to social media on Tuesday. The gallery remembered him as “working hard, smiling always.”
  Villeglé was the last living figure associated with Nouveau Réalism
  
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• ‘Being BeBe’ Review: Reaching for Drag Superstardom

  07-06-2022 19:24 via nytimes.com
  
  Observing its subject with a clear eye, this profile of Marshall Ngwa, who performs as BeBe Zahara Benet, is a breath of fresh air.
  
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• 38th Annual Giralda Music and Arts Festival - Parsippany Focus

  07-06-2022 19:17
  38th Annual Giralda Music and Arts Festival  Parsippany Focus
  
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• British Man Given 15-Year Prison Sentence for Smuggling Antiquities in Iraq

  07-06-2022 19:03 via artnews.com
  
  A British man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for smuggling antiquities out of Iraq this week, bringing a dramatic end to a case that has received worldwide attention.
  The lawyer for Jim Fitton, a retired geologist, said they planned to appeal the decision. “I thought the worst-case scenario would be one year, with suspension,” Thair Soud, Fitton’s legal representative, told Al Jazeera, adding that he plans to appeal the decision.
  Iraqi officials arrested Fitton and a
  
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• ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ to End Its Broadway Run

  07-06-2022 19:02 via nytimes.com
  
  The Tony-winning musical will close in September after suffering a double blow from the coronavirus pandemic and a poorly received film adaptation.
  
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• Russian and Ukrainian Pianists Meet in Texas at Cliburn Competition

  07-06-2022 18:58 via nytimes.com
  
  The war in Ukraine looms over the prestigious contest named for the pianist Van Cliburn, who was a symbol for art transcending global politics.
  
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• Central Lakes College announces new Performing Arts Center leaders - Brainerd Dispatch

  07-06-2022 18:45
  
  Central Lakes College announces new Performing Arts Center leaders  Brainerd Dispatch
  
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• UC Santa Cruz Distinguished Professor of the Arts Isaac Julien knighted by Queen Elizabeth - University of California, Santa Cruz

  07-06-2022 18:33
  
  UC Santa Cruz Distinguished Professor of the Arts Isaac Julien knighted by Queen Elizabeth  University of California, Santa Cruz
  
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• UC Santa Cruz Distinguished Professor of the Arts Isaac Julien knighted by Queen Elizabeth - news.ucsc.edu

  07-06-2022 18:33
  
  UC Santa Cruz Distinguished Professor of the Arts Isaac Julien knighted by Queen Elizabeth  news.ucsc.edu
  
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• Lucy Moss Unwinds With Songwriting and TikTok Cleaning Tutorials

  07-06-2022 18:30 via nytimes.com
  
  The Tony Award-nominated co-director of “Six” shares the corners of the internet she haunts to help her stay productive.
  
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• Meta-Museum: Khalil Rabah at Sharjah Art Foundation

  07-06-2022 18:08 via artnews.com
  
  If, in the Anthropocene, few parts of this planet remain unaffected by human activity, then perhaps it follows that in nature we might find ample evidence of historic events and insights into humanity. We might, for instance, study trees and seas through an anthropological lens. Artist-researchers, with their proclivity for disciplinary promiscuity, have conducted promising experiments in this vein. Maria Thereza Alves and Candice Lin, for example, consider the impact of colonialism on the land,
  
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• For Eyes and Ears: New Sound Art Serves Different Senses with Multimodal Approach

  07-06-2022 18:01 via artnews.com
  
  SOUND DOES NOT EXIST IN A VACUUM—it requires a medium through which to propagate. Innovations in electroacoustics have worked to partition and privatize the sonic realm, separating voices and music from their host bodies and feeding them cleanly to the ear via high-fidelity speakers, noise-canceling headphones, and other means. But sound represents only one facet of a listening experience. To understand another person while speaking face-to-face is not merely to listen to them but, rather,
  
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• In ‘Buggy Baby,’ Shadows Creep In

  07-06-2022 17:57 via nytimes.com
  
  Josh Azouz’s vivid, nightmarish play at Astoria Performing Arts Center in Queens is a hallucinatory tale about two refugees and a talkative infant.
  
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• Proposal for new program, Pathways to the Professoriate in the Arts and Humanities, selected for funding by UC President's Office - University of California, Santa Cruz

  07-06-2022 17:46
  
  Proposal for new program, Pathways to the Professoriate in the Arts and Humanities, selected for funding by UC President's Office  University of California, Santa Cruz
  
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• Proposal for new program, Pathways to the Professoriate in the Arts and Humanities, selected for funding by UC President's Office - news.ucsc.edu

  07-06-2022 17:46
  
  Proposal for new program, Pathways to the Professoriate in the Arts and Humanities, selected for funding by UC President's Office  news.ucsc.edu
  
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• Forget the Crypto Slump — Pace is Furthering its Web3 Ambitions by Partnering with NFT Platform Art Blocks

  07-06-2022 16:55 via artnews.com
  
  The crypto slump isn’t slowing down Pace’s Web3 ambitions.
  The blue-chip gallery announced a partnership with leading generative art NFT platform Art Blocks on Tuesday in an effort that promises to give each organization access to each other’s very different collector bases.
  “Our priority is to connect our artists to new collecting communities, and this [NFT community] is one of them,” Marc Glimcher, President and CEO of Pace, told ARTnews.
  Art Blocks was founded by
  
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• How Playing ‘Elden Ring’ Influenced Hans Ulrich Obrist’s New Show About Video Games and Art

  07-06-2022 16:39 via artnews.com
  
  Walk into any of the world’s biggest institutions, and you’re unlikely to encounter many video games. Right now, however, if you visit the Julia Stoschek Collection in Düsseldorf, these playable works will be the only thing you’ll encounter. To celebrate the space’s 15th anniversary, the eponymous German collector has turned her private museum over to curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, who organized the show “Worldbuilding: Gaming and Art in the Digital Age.” Af
  
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• Wes Jackson to Be the Next President of the Brooklyn Nonprofit BRIC

  07-06-2022 16:29 via nytimes.com
  
  Wes Jackson, a music business entrepreneur, will lead the Brooklyn nonprofit arts organization beginning in July.
  
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• New Three Rivers Arts Festival location gets positive reviews from some of the musicians - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

  07-06-2022 16:05
  
  New Three Rivers Arts Festival location gets positive reviews from some of the musicians  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  
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• Tom Stoppard’s ‘Leopoldstadt’ Will Open on Broadway This Fall

  07-06-2022 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The play, about a Jewish family in Vienna in the first half of the 20th Century, will begin previews Sept. 14 and open Oct. 2 at the Longacre Theater.
  
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• BRIC Announces New President

  07-06-2022 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Wes Jackson, a music business entrepreneur, will lead the Brooklyn nonprofit arts organization beginning in July.
  
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• Bramble Theatre Company's New Performing Arts Space In Andersonville Aims To Help Revive A Struggling Industry - Block Club Chicago

  07-06-2022 16:00
  
  Bramble Theatre Company's New Performing Arts Space In Andersonville Aims To Help Revive A Struggling Industry  Block Club Chicago
  
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• Arts All-Star: Zoey Anderson - WWNY

  07-06-2022 14:24
  
  Arts All-Star: Zoey Anderson  WWNY
  
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• Brit Sentenced to 15 Years for Antiquities Smuggling in Iraq, Mick Jagger Visits the Reina Sofía, and More: Morning Links for June 7, 2022

  07-06-2022 14:00 via artnews.com
  
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  A LEGAL BATTLE CONTINUES. A British man found guilty of attempting to smuggle antiquities out of Iraq was sentenced to 15 years in prison, a ruling that stunned his supporters, the Guardian reports. Jim Fitton, a 66-year-old former geologist, was arrested at Baghdad International Airport in March after officials found a
  
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• ‘Giselle’: Remaking (and Updating) a Classic and Finding a Hit

  07-06-2022 13:25 via nytimes.com
  
  The choreographer Akram Khan and Tamara Rojo, English National Ballet’s artistic director, talk about their “Giselle,” coming to the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
  
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• ‘The Policeman’s Lineage’ Review: Undercover and Overcaffeinated

  07-06-2022 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A clean-cut young cop goes undercover to investigate a top officer in this thriller.
  
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• Tales Full of Fiber and Glitter

  07-06-2022 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  Two textile companies — from Japan and Colombia — are making their first appearance at the center of the design world. Here are their stories.
  
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• In Struggling Murano, a Design Intervention

  07-06-2022 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  The Venetian island, famous for its glass, has long been on the wane, but 700 years of expertise is a terrible thing to squander.
  
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• ‘You Have to Make It Happen’: A Conversation With Maria Porro

  07-06-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The Milan Furniture Fair recently appointed its first female president, who brings a theatrical touch.
  
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• Review: ‘Nightcrawling,’ by Leila Mottley

  07-06-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Leila Mottley’s debut novel about a teenager’s serial abuse is based on a true story.
  
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• And There Was Light. And It Was Brutal.

  07-06-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The British designer Lee Broom shared how he turned a passion for postwar architecture into Divine Inspiration.
  
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• A New Way to Choose Your Next Book

  07-06-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Most books are sold online, where it’s impossible to replicate the experience of browsing in a brick-and-mortar store. Book-discovery apps aim to change that.
  
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• A Designer’s Rugs Have Their Moment at Milan Design 2022

  07-06-2022 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  It was supposed to happen three years ago, but the pandemic had other ideas.
  
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• Bergen County NJ 2022 Arts Amble to offer free shows, exhibits - NorthJersey.com

  07-06-2022 10:06
  Bergen County NJ 2022 Arts Amble to offer free shows, exhibits  NorthJersey.com
  
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• Late Night Anticipates Jan. 6 Hearings

  07-06-2022 08:08 via nytimes.com
  
  Late-night hosts poked fun at Louie Gohmert, the Republican congressman who complained about not being able to lie to the F.B.I. about Jan. 6.
  
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• Staffing issues cause slow rollout of arts, historic preservation programs - Austin Monitor

  07-06-2022 07:09
  
  Staffing issues cause slow rollout of arts, historic preservation programs  Austin Monitor
  
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• A Woman Who Says Bill Cosby Molested Her as a Teen Begins Testifying

  07-06-2022 03:43 via nytimes.com
  
  Judy Huth, who is suing Mr. Cosby on sexual assault grounds in a civil case, took the stand in California to begin describing an encounter with the entertainer that took place decades ago.
  
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